Re: [Bug-gnulib] $Id$

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

>> From: address@hidden (Karl Berry)
>> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 19:22:24 -0500
>>
>> How would people feel about putting $Id$ comments into all the gnulib
>> files?  I know they get copied around and so the $Id$ changes in other
>> distributions, but ... it's still unique identification, which we don't
>> have now.  Any objections?
>
> I'd rather not use $Id$, as I think it causes more troubles for us
> than it cures.

I too prefer to avoid use of $Id$.
It wouldn't mean too much by itself anyhow, because once
the addition made it into my coreutils repository, the
numbers there would be sure to differ -- or maybe they'd
even be the same while the files are the otherwise identical.

However, once things sync up enough, I'll have to find a way
to make my coreutils stuff share the gnulib repository -- e.g.,
so that when I tag a coreutils release, it also tags the ,v files
in gnulib.